DATE: Tuesday, December 11, 2018
TIME: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
PLACE: Hyatt Regency Lake Washington at Seattle's Southport, Seattle, Washington (hotel info)
COST: Complimentary Morning Session (registration required)
CONTACT: info@omg.org
DISTRIBUTED LEDGER AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are the most famous use of blockchains, but distributed ledger technologies have a much broader range of applications across industries and government. Already there are several dozen distributed ledger protocols with few, if any technology standards driving this industry trend. New uses for these protocols are being found all the time in retail, the Internet of Things, logistics, finance and more. Join OMG in discussing the current state and potential future of this transformative technology.
AGENDA
| time | presentation |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome and Blockchain Technology Overview Dr. Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Object Management Group |
| 09:15 - 9:45 | Current State of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Chris Jones, Seattle based Blockchain entrepreneur/Evangelist An industry insider’s view of the current state of Blockchain and distributed ledger technology. |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | The Microsoft vision for Blockchain JT Rose, Microsoft Blockchain is emerging as a topic of interest in our conversations with business leaders. A growing number of enterprises are experimenting with the technology as a secure and transparent way to digitally track the ownership of assets across trust boundaries, opening new opportunities for cross-organizational collaboration and imaginative new business models. Microsoft’s vision is to help companies thrive in this era of secure multi-party computation, delivering open, scalable platforms and services that any company, from ledger startups to governments, health organizations to global banks, can use to create new value. |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Refreshment Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Distributed Immutable Data Objects Dr. Nick Stavros, Jackrabbit Consulting Distributed Immutable Data Objects (DIDO) refers to the underlying technologies supporting distributed data and computation across a distributed network of peers using consensus algorithms to maintain integrity and consistency across the network. DIDOs are not limited to cryptocurrencies, the original blockchain, or distributed ledger technologies. DIDOs are applicable to other non-cryptocurrency domains such as supply chain, registries for birth, deaths etc., and lists of authentication and identification (IA) acceptable certificates including those that have been revoked. The DIDO concepts are captured within the OMG DIDO Reference Architecture (RA), intended to represent any architectures relying on distributed networks of peers that store data and allow parallel computation. The DIDO RA is not intended as a physical “must-have” requirements list, but more as a conceptual catalog of what “can-be.” |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | IOTA – The Backbone of IOT and the Machine-to-Machine Economy |
| 11:30 - 12:20 | Panel: The Future of Distributed Ledger
Moderator - Dr. Richard Mark Soley, Panelists: Panelists: IOTA Foundation (Alexander Renz), Dragonchain (Paul Sonier), RChain (Lawrence Lerner), IBM (Dennis Gerson) |
| 12:20 - 12:30 | Wrap-up and Closing Comments, Announcements
Mike Bennett – OMG FDTF Co-Chair OMG as the venue of choice for Blockchain standards. Announcing new Blockchain Special Interest Group |